Timothy Anderson, 42, standing here with public defender in March while being arraigned for beating his mother, who later died of her injuries, was found incompetent to stand trial by a Stamford judge on Tuesday. less

Timothy Anderson, 42, standing here with public defender in March while being arraigned for beating his mother, who later died of her injuries, was found incompetent to stand trial by a Stamford judge on ... more

Timothy Anderson, 42, stands with attorney April Pramer as he is arraigned in State Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on charges of unlawful restraint, disorderly conduct and two charges of assault. less

Timothy Anderson, 42, stands with attorney April Pramer as he is arraigned in State Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on charges of unlawful restraint, disorderly conduct and two ... more

Timothy Anderson, 42, stands with attorney April Pramer as he is arraigned in State Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on charges of unlawful restraint, disorderly conduct and two charges of assault. less

Timothy Anderson, 42, stands with attorney April Pramer as he is arraigned in State Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on charges of unlawful restraint, disorderly conduct and two ... more

Timothy Anderson, 42, stands with attorney April Pramer as he is arraigned in State Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on charges of unlawful restraint, disorderly conduct and two charges of assault. less

Timothy Anderson, 42, stands with attorney April Pramer as he is arraigned in State Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on charges of unlawful restraint, disorderly conduct and two ... more

STAMFORD — A city man accused of beating his mother so badly that she died from her injuries three days later this past March has been ruled incompetent to stand trial.

During a short hearing in state Superior Court Tuesday morning, Judge John Blawie deemed Tim Anderson, 42, of Sleepy Hollow Lane, unable to understand the charges against him or assist in his own defense.

Blawie made the ruling after testimony by Eileen Hamel, a licensed clinical social worker, who testified that Anderson suffers from a mental disorder severe enough to require specialized housing and ongoing, intensive mental health treatment with psychotropic medications. Either because he is unwilling or unable to take the medications, they will be administered involuntarily.

“They are indicating that they will be trying different medications to see if they can restore him to competency,” public defender Howard Ehring said, “but he has had long standing psychiatric difficulties so there is a question about whether he can be restored to competency.”

Anderson will be moved from the Garner Correctional Center in Newtown to the Whiting Forensic Unit at Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, Ehring said. He will be brought back to Stamford on Nov. 20 to determine if his case can continue along in the criminal justice system.

Stamford State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo said he had no objections at this point to Anderson being deemed incompetent to stand trial. But he said he wanted to make sure Anderson was kept in a secure environment like Whiting, the state’s only maximum security hospital for the criminally insane.

No trial date has been set in the case.

If Anderson cannot be restored to competency, Ehring said his case could proceed with a defense of mental disease or defect, and a judge could order him to be involuntarily committed to a hospital for some time after a court trial.

Wilton resident Aaron Ramsey, 24, who killed his 73-year-old father in a psychotic rage in 2012, was also found not competent to stand trial. A year later, he was committed to Whiting for 50 years after being found not guilty by reason of insanity.

That decision was made by a three-judge panel following a two-day trial. Stamford Judge Richard Comerford found that Ramsey was in an acute psychotic condition when he killed his father.

Authorities say Anderson attacked his mother, 76-year-old Maryann Anderson, in the home they shared on March 23 after she and her oldest son decided to confront Anderson about not taking his prescribed medications for psychological problems. The family told police he had begun acting strangely, spending time alone, pacing and yelling for no apparent reason.

After insisting he was taking his pills, police say Anderson became violent when his mother told him she found the medication in the trash earlier that day. He then grabbed her by the collar and repeatedly punched her in the face, police said.

After she was taken to Stamford Hospital, doctors found Maryann Anderson had bleeding on the brain, and a part of her skull was removed during emergency surgery to alleviate pressure. She later slipped into a coma and was put on a ventilator. She died after the family took her off the ventilator three days later.